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Would it stop you whining if I said I did it? Though it should be noted, when you edit someone's post it leaves and "Edited by..." bit at the bottom. Yes, even for moderators and admins. So from what we can tell, one of two things happened; 1. You did it yourself. 2. Your account has been hacked in to. If I could edit other people's posts in this forum it would be easy enough to demonstrate, however I can't.

Calm down? Kiss and make up? Or infractions? Which would you like first?

That was my point. They covered their three big, active and exclusive franchises. All the others are currently inactive, are vapourware or else have been abandoned by Microsoft due to a lack of success.

I think it's probably got more to do with the number of studios they've lost/closed over the past few years. FASA Studios, Carbonated Games, Ensemble Studios, ACES Game Studios have all been closed by Microsoft, Bizarre Creations were closed by Activision. This leaves Microsoft with Lionhead, Rare and Turn 10 Studios as being the only MGS studios with any experience of releasing traditional games. Every other studio was opened with Kinect, Windows Phone or XBLA in mind. Rare have been reinvented as Microsoft's lead Kinect studio (curiously there was nothing from them at E3...) so they won't be working on regular games for quite some time, and Peter Molyneux has lapped up the Kinect project, his studio was already going that way. That leaves Turn 10, who have only ever done Forza games. Oh, and 343 Industries, a new studio made up of ex-Bungie staffers. They've opened 3 new studios this year, but their games likely won't see the light of day until the Xbox 360's successor. The only exclusive games that Microsoft could have shown, other than Halo, Forza and Kinect games, are the Alan Wake and Too Human sequels that are being worked on. Too many eggs in one basket?

Passive has been around for ages, it just never caught on because it halves the horizontal resolution of the screen and is generally quite bad when it comes to ghosting. There's been passive 3D PC monitors since the mid-90's.

I enjoyed it. Then again, my expectations weren't high. E3 isn't what it used to be. When I was growing up E3 was the place where 90% of big gaming announcements were made. These days there's far more trade shows for these companies to make their announcements, E3 has become less important. What I do know is that I'll now be picking up a Kinect. The price has dropped enough that I was already considering it, and the titles shown look like they could be good fun with the missus/for drunk times with friends. Sony yet again showed off software that I want, but yet again I probably won't pick up any of their consoles due to lack of time/budget. The WiiU blew me away, despite not being full thought through yet. Seems like an amazing concept (with a really dire name) and I will most likely pick one up at launch for family fun

Try overclockers.co.uk, hexus.net or overclock.net

I guess bathing in money must be painful... Kinect has now sold 10 Million units worldwide and driven a massive acceleration in Xbox 360 hardware sales (the biggest since the console's launch). If that's pain then colour me a sadist.

Nup. Stumped. You tried asking elsewhere?

What board and RAM did you get in the end?

http://www.noconfidence.org.uk/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/08/david-willetts-oxford-no-confidence I haven't seen anything on this here so I figured I'd start up a thread. I don't honestly think the campaign will have any real effect, but IMO it's worth signing up for anyway. The new tuition fee system (along with many other new policies relating to University) are a load of bollocks. Sure, there's problems with the current system, like an over-saturated graduate job market, but pricing people out of the University system isn't the way forward.

I thought most of the mutant cast were really underwhelming/badly written/badly chosen. Xavier, Erik and Raven were bang on the money. Ms Frost wasn't too bad either. Beast, on the other hand, was appalling. To skinny, too emo and the make-up was dire. He didn't look fierce or intimidating, he just looked angsty - like he needed a good slap. The rest of them were completely 'meh' and uninspiring either way. I enjoyed the film, and it's probably my favourite X-Men film to date, but it could (and should) have been so much better. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender were fantastic as Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. IMO they should have cut the cast down and focussed more on those two.

I actually hope it is EA providing the online service. Origin (their new online service for PC and mobile) looks quite good, and certainly a lot better than anything Nintendo have (and probably would) come up with themselves.

If you want something to use for a year before buying a WiiU then maybe an Xbox would actually be the way to go. You can grab used machines for ridiculously cheap.

Any error lights on the graphics card or motherboard? They should hint at what the problem is. What PSU are you using?

The board obviously has power. Does it "do nothing" as in literally nothing? The monitor doesn't switch out of standby? It could well be the graphics card that's broken. If not then it probably is the mobo.

Mount it upside down. You don't really want the PSU sucking on warn air if you can help it.

Yeah, I was only pulling your leg. I don't think I've actually got much use for it either (other than it protecting against hard drive failure, or making it easier to migrate between consoles). Still, the Beacon sounds like a sensible idea that should have been there years ago. It would be even more awesome if you could set the beacon from your phone or PC (or tablet I guess) and receive messages telling you people want to play. I hate leaving the Xbox on just in case someone wants a game (my lot seem to rarely text, if someone isn't online, they don't get invited).

Um... as opposed to keeping them in both places? Of all the things to have cloud paranoia about, games saves aren't one of them. What are you worried about? Some video of you jacking it in front of Kinect winding up on the internet?

You know what I mean :P The first game was it's own story with a few events carrying in to the second game (The assassination attempt at the end, Geralt's memory loss). The Witcher 2 is more like 'The Witcher 2: Part 1', a lot of loose ends aren't tied up and they'll flow in to The Witcher 3.

Completed it tonight. Enjoyed the ending, but this is definitely part 1 of a story.

Xbox 360 trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-the-witcher/714516 It's not a straight port either; I really hope they do well with this and that they get to work on The Witcher 3 soon. Their engine seems to be powerful enough that they could get at least another game out of it without any modification/enhancement so development time shouldn't be all that long (late 2012?).

You can run 1600MHz RAM at 1333MHz. It'll result in lower latencies than similarly priced 1333MHz RAM too, so it's a pretty good deal

If you want to overclock make sure you have a P67 motherboard and an i5 2500k. If not then get a H67 or H61 motherboard and the i5 2400 or 2500. I went for a H67 and an i5 2400 when I built mine, couldn't justify the (at the time £60 premium to get stuff that would overclock. Other than that you're good to go

Specialized Rockhopper 2011 Received it on Monday. I used to cycle to work and hit the trails on Cannock Chase on my days off, but I stopped when my bike got totalled by a lorry a couple of years back. Since then I've grown fat and lazy (well, not really fat, but I'm certainly carrying more weight than I used to). I tried the gym. My god is it boring. Ordered this instead; so much more fun! Got a Magnum Plus Mini lock on it's way too. Just got to sort lights, gloves and some padded shorts (these are amazing).